Sidsel Meineche Hansen (born 1981 in Denmark, lives and
works in London) is a Danish artist. She produces exhibitions,
interdisciplinary seminars and publications that foreground the body and its
industrial complex, in what she refers to as a “techno-somatic variant of
institutional critique”. Meineche Hansen questions the body in the field of
industrial representations: robotic or virtual bodies, and their
relationship with the
working
world of industries of
gaming,
pornography, and
new
technologies. Her research-led practice has taken the form of woodcut
prints, sculptures and CGI animations, often made by combining her own
low-tech manual craft with outsourced, skilled digital labour.
Her recent exhibitions include: “An Artists Guide to Stop Being an Artist”,
SMK - The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2019); “Real Doll
Theatre”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; “End-user”, Kunsthal
Århus, Denmark; “OVER”, Index Stockholm, Sweden (2018); “OVER”, Ludlow 38,
New York City (2017); “No Right Way 2 Cum”, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow;
“SECOND SEX WAR”, Gasworks, London, znd Trondheim Konstmuseum, Norway
(2016); “ONE-self”, Temporary Gallery & Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany
(2015); and “INSIDER”, CUBITT, London (2014).
